Beautiful.

He's referring to the razor Fuzzy, not you.

Thank you, Joseph!

My Bride and I just made it home from the 2018 TSD 30 Day Crew meet up. We had a fantastic time, and we're already looking forward to the next one.

A big thanks, once again, to Comrade @NCoxSTL for arranging everything. You set the bar very high, my friend, for the next meet up. Thank you for the variety pack of Russian DE blades. I look forward to trying them. Most of these will be "firsts" for me.

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Thanks also to @Drygulch for his work to arrange the LE "Blood on Steel" soap and aftershave from Jeeves of Hudson Street and to @Keithmax for the super cool embroidered silk folding screen from Korea. I have the perfect place to display this in my office.

Here'a photo showing the loot:

Well I’m fairly sure we’ve been put on a list, by the bearded men trying to suppress the rebellion.

Thank you Perry!

Thank you Joseph!

Either that or a team of analysts is trying to figure out what Neal’s cartel is actually doing and where the insurgents in my revolution meet and what we discuss. It could go either way, really.

Academy ruling? Ummm no.

Last true story of the day: One of my good friends used to be a big time software engineer for GE. His job was working with Boeing developing the software for the joint strike fighter jet for the military. Every time we talked on the phone when he was at the office at either GE or Boeing, we’d start our phone calls just that way (minus the Backstreet Boys). We thought it was hilarious that someone was probably sifting through our calls as a result. Fortunately (and anticlimatically) nothing ever happened.

Didn’t think about that. You have a point. And, considering that Russia has been at the forefront in the news as of late, there might be some concern and confusion as to why blades from there are so important to us.

To follow up on discussing my shave this morning-I now have 3 "Summer" soaps in my little den-each with a good A.S. to go:

1.Razorock Aqua-(w Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue)
2.Stoylin Glacial Wintergreen(w. Stoylin Sandpiper w/Menthol)*
3.Razorock xxx-milled Lime Burst(w. Clubman Gents Gin). \

*-this will soon run out, but I'm expecting a regular Sandpiper soon as a PIF).

I should follow up here with what I've recently read-that Clubman A.S. was made famous in 1830, not 1810 as itsays. The 1810 refers to when Doc Pinaud was BORN. This is akin to the shaggy dog joke that Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin he built with his bare hands.)

Yes, when I use Clubman. (That is, unless I am missing something in the discussion).

Actually, in The Stand, it's Boulder, CO. That, or Vegas.

Saturday:



-Feather DX
-Rudy Vey Chubby
-Stirling Piacenza

I have been so busy and stressed out at work, I actually went the whole week without shaving. The Feather was the obvious choice for beard removal. A face lather was a must, and I wanted to use badger. The Shavemac knot in the jade Chubby isn’t my absolute scrubbiest badger, but at 28x48, it is a powerful knot, and it holds a ton of lather. Three excellent passes and a bit of touching up later, and I was very, very close to BBS.

We went to the wedding of a good friend’s daughter yesterday. The bride’s father had a bourbon tasting set up at the reception for a group of us, and I was really glad it was raining this morning. Otherwise I was either going fishing really hung over, or not going and feeling like a dumbass for being hung over enough to let it screw up my day.

Sunday:



-Supply Provision
-Duke 3 Best
-Stirling Iced Pineapple

The Duke 3 is such a versatile brush. It’s a little bit taller lofted than some of my brushes, so it really works great for bowl lathering, but the Best hair is densely packed enough to give it plenty of backbone. So it’s a great face latherer, and big enough to hold three passes worth of soap. It is as versatile as a badger brush can be.

What's this about Boulder? I was there during my Colorado "swing".

What he means is that the actual product you’re using isn’t from the 1800’s. The product might have been “born” then, but what you are using is current production.

That's nice your bride accompanied you, Charlie.